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thereabouts; Nordley for the Stanley and Apley series; 

 and Lindley for the woods of Caughley. Glazeley is 

 generally chosen for the Chelmarsh Bottoms ; Billings- 

 ley for its solid coverts on hill and dale and for those of 

 Chorley; the Eagle-and- Serpent for the Kinlet coverts 

 (some hundreds of acres in extent) ; and Chelmarsh 

 for the many smaller coverts of Hampton and neigh- 

 bourhood. 



On a Friday Much-Wenlock may be the meet for tho 

 day^s work that the Edge- Wood is always capable of 

 affording ; Wyke for the covert of that name and 

 Benthall and Tickwood; and Brockton for Mogg 

 Forest. For the last-named and adjoining coverts 

 Patton (the residence of Mr. E. H. Davies, Hon. Sec. 

 to the Hunt) is also the meet at least once in the 

 season ; and never fails to draw together one of the 

 largest fields of the year. The muster with the 

 Wheatland, by the way_, seldom exceeds fifty, even in 

 the vicinity of Wenlock or Bridgnorth. For the more 

 southern portion of the Edge Wood, and for the several 

 small coverts of Preen, the more frequent fixture is 

 The Five Chimneys, Presthope. Monk Hopton points 

 to Netchwood Gorse and Middleton Gorse, &c., and 

 Weston to Oxenbold and Neenton Gorse — while Ditton 

 Priors may be for Powkes-More and the rough gorse- 

 besprinkled Glee Hill. 



